""War machines" uses a single recording of the 1939 Bombe computer, recorded by Matt Parker of The Imitation Archive in 2015. The Bombe was devised by Alan Turing and associates at the UK Government Code and Cypher School and used at Bletchley Park to decipher enemy codes.
"This recording serves as the basis for a composition comprised of wartime radio broadcasts, occupied territory city ambiances, and air raid sirens taken in the years proceeding the Bombe's invention. Using computationally-intensive processing routines, this piece embeds itself in a history of computing, and serves to illustrate that no such history can be extricated from the history of militarization."
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
